Saad Zaghloul

Saad Zaghloul (July 1859-23 August 1927) was Prime Minister of Egypt from 26 January to 24 November 1924, succeeding Abdel Fattah Yahya Pasha and preceding Ahmed Zeiwar Pasha. He was a member of the Wafd Party.

Biography
Saad Zaghloul was born in Ibyana, Egypt in July 1859, and he studied law in Cairo and Paris. As Education Minister in 1906, he insisted on the use of Arabic in primary schools. He was Minister of Justice from 1910 to 1912, and in 1913 was elected to the legislative assembly, where he became leader of the opposition. After World War I, he led a delegation to London to petition for an Egyptian delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, which would have meant the recognition of Egypt's sovereignty, but this was rejected. He was expelled until 1923, when he became the leader of a nationalist movement called the Wafd Party. He won every subsequent election until his death, but was only briefly Premier, owing to the hostility of the British and of King Fuad I of Egypt.